Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

Cnet News ^ | January 9, 2006 | Declan McCullagh

[Halgr]

http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html?part=rss&tag=6022491&subj=news

I don't know why the link in the post didn't work?

[LongsforReagan]

Less government, right? Right.....

[bkepley]

Here's a solution. Don't send annoying messages anonymously.

[staytrue]

The only good part is this "who receives the communications"

So when we trash Hitlery, as long as it is not directly addressed to her, we should be OK.

[GaltMeister]

Does that Star Spangled Banner still wave
Ore' the land of the free
And the home of the perpetually offended

[tallhappy]

Your message greatly annoyed me.

Reday to face the legal consequences?

[Bob J]

Sounds like this might only apply if the "annoyance" is sent directly and personally to the recipient via email. I guess FReepmail would apply.

What department is the guv going to create to handle the millions of complaints that will flood in?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Does this mean that after we sick the VK on a troll we watch them get prosecuted also? BONUS!

[proxy_user]

But in order to be sent to prison, a jury trial would be required. The offended person would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is annoyed.

[ZULU]

That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal?


Simple. People "annoy" polticians by criticizing them.

They don't want people to interfere with the life style they feel they have become deserving of.

[angkor]

Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay would be going to jail under this ridiculous statute.

[UB355]

does this apply to the DUmpers ?

[LongsforReagan]

What about SPAM? That annoys me. Can we file suit?

[wingnutx]

Almost every poster in this site would be prosecuted as well.

Everything annoys somebody.

[tallhappy]

No, more like the troll prosecutes us.

[MiHeat]

How can you avoid it? When I want to complain to Frist (I have two demorat senators) I have to provide a phony address in his home state to get the message through. Am I violating this law?

When I send a nasty email to a senator from a state other than mine I must do the same.

This is BS.

[Mr. Brightside]

Let me guess.

Congress probably exempted themselves from this law, just like the "Do Not Call" law.

[Halgr]

For once the ACLU might do some good???

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MiHeat - you'll have to send a message by snail-mail in order to avoid your problem....I would think.

[PAR35]

Here's a solution. Don't send annoying messages anonymously.

I'm annoyed by your comment.